Successful CSR communication is about the right message, the right amount of information delivered through the right vehicle, according to the Natural Marketing Institute. Most consumers prefer to learn about CSR through news media, a favoring likely due to the media’s third party reference point.
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Energy giant accused of leaning on authors of independent environmental report to help secure financial backing for controversial oil and gas extraction project.
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Is corporate social responsibility dead? Yes, says Harvard Business Review’s “Conversation Starter” blog. CSR will increasingly be seen as a public relations sham, the bloggers say.
Yes, says my colleague Stefan Stern, who recently predicted on this page that companies would abandon CSR in favour of “sustainability”.
No, says the European Commission, which commends companies that “go beyond minimum legal requirements to address societal needs” and has just spent three years and €1.4m ($2m) producing a 108-page report on CSR.
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Corporate boards can and should influence their companies’ social and environmental performances finds a new report.
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Slightly more companies than last year are using green procurement policies, says TerraChoice’s latest Ecomarkets report, but the bigger change is in what environmental issues are most important.
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ArcelorMittal, Citigroup, Chevron, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), ExxonMobil, Nestlé, Samsung, Shell, Total, and Wal-Mart were red-flagged by ECOFACT as the most controversial companies in the world. The companies were routinely in the news and criticized by non-governmental organizations in the first half of this year.
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Firms that work directly with factory managers to help suppliers take ownership of corporate social responsibility issues have a better chance of effectively addressing concerns about labor practices, the environment and worker health and safety, according to a new report by Business for Social Responsibility (BSR).
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Three-quarters of companies fail to independently verify the contents of their CSR reports
Only a quarter of the 3,000 companies expected to publish a CSR report this year will include a third-party assurance statement addressing the report’s credibility and completeness.
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Intertek Sustainability Solutions has announced the release of the Ethical Sourcing Report 2008, featuring in-depth articles that address a top-down and bottom-up view of key ethical sourcing issues, comprehensive reporting on industry trends and in depth perspectives from industry thought leaders whom recently exchanged views on opportunities for advancement with a broad cross section of stakeholders at the Ethical Sourcing Forum held March 2008 in New York City, U.S.A..
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Our current patterns of consumption and production have significant environmental impacts, including greenhouse gases, pollution and the depletion of natural resources. Much can be done to make the way we consume and produce in Europe more sustainable, without additional costs for companies and households, and can bring benefits. The European Commission therefore today proposed a package of actions and proposals to improve the environmental performance of products and stimulating the demand for more sustainable goods and production technologies. EU industry will be encouraged to take up new opportunities and innovate in order to ensure its continued leadership in environmental performance. The Action plan also explores means for promoting sustainable production and consumption internationally.
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Under the auspices of the WBCSD and World Economic Forum, more than 100 CEOs of major companies worldwide have developed climate policy recommendations for the G8 summit being held in Japan this week.
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The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is today publishing a report which identifies the CO2 emissions created by goods and services imported into the UK.
In an increasingly global economy, imported goods and services have climate impacts in other countries and the key to reducing emissions across the international supply chain is knowing the scale and nature of the problem.
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